MonkeyMote Music Remote

Obsidium Software

About this app

MonkeyMote gives you a full-fledged wireless music remote control for your Android phone.

It fully supports the popular foobar2000, MediaMonkey 4, Winamp, AIMP 2 & 3 and JRiver Media Center media players.

The app connects to the media player running on your Windows PC via your WiFi network and allows you to view information about currently playing tracks and control every important playback feature.

Key features:
• Playback control
• Display song information, lyrics and cover art
• View and control the current playlist
• Load playlists from your library
• Browse and search your media library and queue songs
• View and set song ratings
• Equalizer control (not supported for foobar2000)
• Save multiple connection profiles
• Small, fast, low resource usage, minimal permissions
• Easy to setup and use

All you need to do to get it working is to download and install the plugin installer for your media player from www.monkeymote.com

In case you run into problems when setting up the app or plug-in, please visit the support page at www.monkeymote.com first.

Please note that the automatic server discovery feature requires at least Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and is not supported by all devices. It is disabled by default on devices that are not running at least Android 4.4 due to an operating system bug that can trigger reboots on some devices.

Additional features are planned for future releases.

There's also a free version with a slightly reduced feature set: MonkeyMote Music Remote Lite

Ratings and reviews

This is best remote available for foobar2000 on play store. It does what it states. Good to have- 1) App doesn't stay in a specific screen as it get refreshed. If a user is on selected Artist screen, it should stay there, instead of going to Now Playing. 2) Able to play music on remote device. Looks like this feature is supported for apple. Developer might have challenges invoking default player as there are multiple android flavors. Atleast start support for one player, say, USB Audio Player.

Great replacement for the foobar2000 controller that no longer works on newer Android versions. I wish this app had a home screen widget and would keep the connection to the app alive longer, though. Sometimes I put my phone to sleep for five seconds, hear a song I don't like, open it back up, and have to wait for it to reconnect which sometimes fails for no apparent reason. By and large, though, this does the job and does it well.

Nice app that works. It is annoying that there is no way to jump from folder list to cureently playing view (to adjust volume for example) and to come back to the previously drilled down folder. One has to come out of the folder list entirely and only then can access the volume and track controls. On iPad this app works as it should, however. Please add this improvement to the android app and I'll gladly change the rating to 5 stars. Thank you in advance!.